Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were relieved to stop off at the Hotel de la Cachette in Arc 1600 for a delicious buffet lunch . |
| 2 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 3 | Major 's proposals were first put forward at the summit ( although the United States government had reportedly been told shortly beforehand ) , prompting the Independent of April 10 to wonder whether " the early bungling over the Gulf crisis could be quietly forgotten " . |
| 4 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 5 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 6 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 7 | What might happen to it then was first understood only at the end of the 1920s . |
| 8 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 9 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |